Word: khans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gandhi at once began working harder than before. He received the Indian National Congress Party Working Committee to discuss ways of continuing to protest British rule. Among those present: huge, bearded Abdul Gaffar Khan, a Moslem who spends his life preaching Hindu Gandhi's nonviolence principles to the fierce Pathans of the Northwest Frontier Province; the Congress Party's spade-bearded Moslem President, Maulana Abdulkalam Azad, who gesticulates like a French prefect; the poetess and veteran Congresswoman, Madame Sarojini Naidu, Gandhi's principal female disciple, who calls him Mickey Mouse; India's second-best-known citizen...
Died. William James Tatem, Lord Glanely, 74, Welsh shipping tycoon, famed breeder and racer of horses; killed by a German bomb; in a southwest English coast town. He founded one of the world's greatest stud farms, at Exning, once had more horses in training than the Aga Khan and Lord Derby, won more than 500 races. His Grand Parade won the Derby...
Star of the beast epic is Shere Khan (real name: Roger), a magnificent half-Bengal, half-Sumatran tiger who is out to get Mowgli (Sabu, the young Hindu who starred in Elephant Boy). The ominous supporting cast includes some 2,000 animals, birds and reptiles-notably a slinky black panther (Bagheera) with a sinister propensity for sharpening his lethal claws on tree limbs, an enormous python (Kaa, who had to be controlled with a blow torch), and a very unpleasant cobra...
Sabu, who returns to his native village and his true mother after his wolfish education is ended, learns how to run with the man pack in no time at all. Buldeo (Joseph Calleia), the hunter, sells him a "tooth" (a long-bladed knife), and he polishes off Shere Khan. But the hunter's lust for the treasure of a lost jungle city which Mowgli reveals to him sends the disgusted wolf-boy back to his animal friends-and leaves the door wide open for a sequel, if the box office warrants...
There were also signs that the demands of the Moslem League, India's second largest party, for a separate Moslem state might not bulk as large as had seemed likely. One of the country's leading Moslems, Premier of Punjab Sir Sikandar Hyat Khan, told friends that he was resigning from the League's Working Committee and Council. It was believed that he had quarreled with the League's President Mohamed Ali Jinnah. Since Sir Sikandar has long favored coalition with the Congress in forming provincial governments, his resignation might mean that he would work...